Is it real, what I feel, is it love,
Is it love that's making me weak, in the night,
And when she's next to me,
I just stumble on my words,
And all the things I want to say,
Come out wrong,
I am lost in a dream,
But I know this is more than it seems,
I need a little help;
Someone put on a love song,
To bring her closer to me,
All I want is this diamond in the dark,
To begin what must be;
When she turns at her name, when she smiles,
When she smiles, I feel it again, in my heart,
Across the crowded room,
She is just a dance away,
And I can feel her like a fire that's burning strong,
She keeps looking at me,
And I know this was all meant to be,
And then it had to come;
Someone put on a love song,
To bring her closer to me,
All I want is this diamond in the dark,
To begin what must be,
All I want is this diamond in the dark,
To begin what must be,
All I want is this diamond in the dark, to begin what must be,
All I want is this diamond in the dark, to begin what must be.
"It describes the nervousness that you have when you're in a room and you see somebody who's... fantastic. You really want to talk to him or her but you just don't know what to say. You're kind of stumbling on your words and everything is falling apart. You think 'Damn! What I really want is for someone to put on a nice slow love song - like, for example, Lady In Red! - and then we can dance to it and I can get to know this person better, and in a different way where I won't be so shy and awkward.' I wrote this song when I was in Nuremberg; sitting outside a hotel in the sunshine with a guitar. It's a ballad."
The Getaway Gazette, September 1989
Albums
"Diamond In The Dark" appears on the following albums:
